American Literature Tests and Tutorials

Protagonists of The Sun Also Rises

  1. At the center of the action in Ernest Hemingway's novel The Sun Also Rises is Robert Cohn's ill-fated romantic involvement with Lady Brett Ashley which takes place during ______. Hint
    2. a) World War I
    b) Prohibition
    c) the Great Depression
    d) the Spanish Civil War

  2. The character who serves as the narrator of the novel is ______. Hint
    3. a) Harvey Stone
    b) Robert Cohn
    c) Mike Campbell
    d) Jake Barnes

  3. Lady Brett Ashley and Robert Cohn are both ______ years old. Hint
    4. a) 27
    b) 31
    c) 34
    d) 36

  4. When Jake Barnes first tells Robert Cohn about Lady Brett Ashley, Jake makes it clear that she intends to marry ______. Hint
    5. a) Mike Campbell
    b) Harvey Stone
    c) Bill Gorton
    d) Aloysius Kirby

  5. Robert Cohn is a former middleweight boxing champion of ______ University. Hint
    6. a) Harvard
    b) Yale
    c) Stanford
    d) Princeton

  6. Robert Cohn was married for ______ years before being abandoned by his wife. Hint
    7. a) two
    b) three
    c) four
    d) five

  7. Jake Barnes describes himself as Robert Cohn's "______." Hint
    8. a) literary friend
    b) tennis friend
    c) spiritual twin
    d) travel guide

  8. After being called a "______," Jake Barnes throws a punch at Robert Cohn. Hint
    9. a) damned pimp
    b) crippled drunk
    c) spineless faggot
    d) stupid eunuch

  9. Robert Cohn receives a monthly allowance of about ______ dollars from his mother. Hint
    10. a) two hundred
    b) three hundred
    c) four hundred
    d) five hundred

  10. When Bill Gorton asks if Jake Barnes is actually a Catholic, Jake replies "______." Hint
    11. a) Technically
    b) Fanatically
    c) Legally
    d) Hopelessly

  11. When Lady Brett Ashley says, "You don't look very religious, Jake," Jake Barnes responds, "I'm ______." Hint
    12. a) pretty religious
    b) religious enough
    c) bloody religious
    d) a damn saint

  12. Lady Brett Ashley got married during the war soon after her lover died of ______. Hint
    13. a) gangrene
    b) dysentery
    c) tuberculosis
    d) food poisoning

  13. In Robert Cohn's last year at the university, he began ______. Hint
    14. a) smoking cigars
    b) using a cane
    c) wearing glasses
    d) playing chess

  14. Jake Barnes is from ______. Hint
    15. a) Chicago
    b) Kansas City
    c) Springfield
    d) Des Moines

  15. Jakes Barnes says that Robert Cohn would get a "______" on his face when he was insulted. Hint
    16. a) stoney, dark
    b) pale, boney
    c) sallow, yellow
    d) waxy, cold

  16. Lady Brett Ashley says that Count Mippipopolous offered her ______ thousand dollars to go to Biarritz with him. Hint
    17. a) ten
    b) twenty
    c) forty
    d) fifty

  17. In his conversation with Robert Cohn, Jake mentions having first met Lady Brett Ashley at a ______. Hint
    18. a) bar
    b) hospital
    c) convent
    d) theatre

  18. Mike Campbell recalls that Lady Brett Ashley has received her title from a husband who threatens to kill her and sleeps with a ______. Hint
    19. a) loaded revolver
    b) hunting knife
    c) sharpened sabre
    d) live grenade

  19. During the war, Jake Barnes was wounded in ______. Hint
    20. a) Austria
    b) France
    c) Germany
    d) Italy

  20. Lady Brett Ashley begins a romance with Pedro Romero in Pamplona and ends it in ______. Hint
    21. a) Madrid
    b) Barcelona
    c) Pamplona
    d) Paris

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